Improvement in machimfis for cutting loaf-sugar



FLIX BROWN, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

Leners Patent No. 109,296, dated November 15, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR- CUTTING LOAF-SUGAR.

I, FELIX Biiowx, ot' the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain Improvement-s in Machines for Cutting Loaf-Sugar, oi' which the following is a specification.

Na tu n: a n ll OIU'ecl.

My invention relates to that class ot` machines which Convert tliewelI-known loaf-sugar of cominci-ce into small cnbieal blocks, and was iii-st patented to A. and Brown Mar'ch 2G, 1856, and which has recently been extended foi' seven (7) years.

ln that invention, and all others following' it to the present, the first operation consisted in cutting the loaves into slabs ot' a thickness equal 'to one dimension ot' the blocks to be formed, and these were then fed to the devices forv ibrining the cubes.

The object oi'ithis invention is to inuke the entire operation automatic, and at the saine time introduce a new method of sawing, by which a great savingof theloat' is effected and the machine greatly increased in its working capacity.

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w parts, as at (lr, that when a loai'is placed on it and held in position by seine elaii'iping devices, :is'at Il, a reciprocating motion will I'ie imparti-.d to the loat'earrying the frame over the saws 1), which are arranged to extend up through the guide 1t, and above it S'ulliciently far to score the base ofthe lout' to the depth that the blocks are to be formed, and said scores or curfs will also be of the same distance apart, so that when said The Schedule referred to In these Letters Patent and making part o! the same.

scores are removed l'roin the end ot the loal'that which ias previously a. slab will be cnt into strips, whose cross-section will be a square.

'.lo 'separate said strips, a band-saw, as shown at Il,

mounted upon suitable pulleys, and run in such proximity to the guide B that, if the loaf be carried out, against said saw, the strips formed bythe saws I) will be severed therefrom, and be carried by suitable guides, as at K, to the rolls lt. 1t, where they are out into blocks by corresponding knives in the peripheries ol' said rolls, as indicated at '/1, lig. 1.

The advantages ot' such an arrangement are- First, that the machines can be increased in width, so that more than one loat'ean be placed upon the table at a time, as the band-saw maybe ot any length.

Second, the operations are all automatic, so that but little attention'is required for running the machine.

Third, the band-saw can be made s0 inuch thinner than the circular saws now used for suehpurposes that less than one-hait' the waste isprodueeii hy the sawing' operation when performed by this invention.

. Claims.

1. The combination of a guide, B, with saws l) D, for scoring or grooving the sugar loaf, as described, and for the purposes set forth.

2. .In combination with a guide, B, the band-saw E, for cutting ol said scored or grooved port-ions of the loaf', as described.

3. lhe guides K, for conducting the severed strips ot sugar troni the hand-saw to the nipping-rolls, as described.

4. The clamping device, in combination with the sliding or moving guide, for holdingr the uncut portionsof the loa-t', as described, and for the purposes set forth.

FELIX BROWN.

Witnesses:

Bonn E-Lio'r,

NICHOLAS Dohmen. 

